Alfred Downing created accurate sketches of the banks and riverbed of the Columbia River. In 1880, he created a reasonably accurate outline sketch of the Waterville Plateau. He ...

The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan.

Leveraging national surveys, big-data advances and machine learning, Cornell researchers have piloted a new approach to ...

Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...